Late morning.
Second Office.
Dong Xuebin returned empty-handed.
"Director Dong."
"Where's Qian Qian? Why didn't she come back?"
"Where did Director Fang take the child?"
Seeing this, Zhang Lili, Han Fei, and the others hurriedly asked a few concerned questions.
Dong Xuebin waved a hand indifferently. "It's fine. Get back to work. Finish those work plans—I want to see them this afternoon. Hurry up."
Han Fei said, "But Qian Qian..."
Dong Xuebin went into his office.
Han Fei was rather surprised. She knew Director Dong's personality well after all their contact these past days. Why had he not lost his temper today?
Noon.
Everyone went downstairs to the cafeteria for lunch.
Only then did Han Fei, Zhang Lili, and the others understand why Dong Xuebin had not gotten angry or mentioned Qian Qian being "taken away." Fang Wenping had actually brought Xiao Qianqian to the cafeteria, holding her hand. To accommodate the little girl's height, Fang Wenping deliberately bent over slightly as she led Qian Qian forward by her chubby little hand. After lining up at the counter and getting food, she sat down at a table near the radiator. Before even taking a bite herself, she smilingly fed Xiao Qianqian. Some chunks of meat were too large, so Fang Wenping put them in her own mouth first and chewed them up before carefully spitting them into her hand and feeding them to the child.
That motherly tenderness was really something.
Everyone in the cafeteria stared at Fang Wenping in astonishment. They probably had never expected this notoriously difficult woman from the Discipline Inspection Committee to be smiling so happily.
Her temper stank.
Her personality was awful.
She never gave anyone a pleasant look.
That was everyone's impression of Fang Wenping.
So this scene truly overturned their perceptions.
"Whose child